Titoli in Saggi

Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of 14 people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family.

Written as a series of vignettes, this rewarding book recounts the life and adventures of respected writer Mary Fisher. Decades of travel through America and Europe supply the fodder for these tales, with wonderful details of the people, places, foods, and thoughts that have flavored her journey.

The Light in the Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson and her beautiful, twenty-six-year-old daughter, Clara, are touring the Tuscan countryside. While sightseeing, Clara meets a good-looking young Italian man, Fabrizio, and quickly embarks on a whirlwind romance with him, despite her mother's stern disapproval.

Amy Wilson, co-host of the award-winning podcast What Fresh Hell, takes a funny and insightful look at how women are conditioned to be “happy to help”—and what happens when things don’t go that way.

Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and...

In What Water Holds, a series of lyrical essays first shared at Oregon’s FisherPoets Gathering, Tele examines questions of equity, identity, community, the changing climate, and sustainability with loving, detailed attention, revealing the complexities within their many shades of gray.

The Person Sitting in Darkness by Mark Twain is a searing political satire that exposes the hypocrisy and brutality of imperialism at the turn of the 20th century. With his signature wit and razor-sharp critique, Twain challenges the moral justifications used by Western powers—especially the United States—in their global conquests.

Un retrato perspicaz y atrevido de la masculinidad contemporánea. Cualquier feminista que haya dialogado ante el público sobre las frustraciones y los lastres innatos a la aventura de ser mujer habrá tenido que enfrentarse alguna vez a la pregunta: «¿Y los hombres qué?». Y si la feminista en cuestión lleva años intentando convencer a ese público de que las preocupaciones de ambos sexos son cosas muy distintas, su respuesta automática, muy probablemente, habrá sido algo como: «¿Por qué me sacan este tema? ¡Yo soy feminista! ¡Mi especialidad son las mujeres! No me ocupo de… los otros».

Desde mediados del siglo XX, la esperanza de vida ha aumentado en occidente de veinte a treinta años, lo que equivale a toda una existencia en el siglo XVII. Así pues, al llegar a los cincuenta años, experimentamos una suerte de suspensión entre la madurez y la vejez, un intervalo en el que la brevedad de la vida realmente comienza, mientras nos planteamos las grandes cuestiones de nuestra condición.

A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya’s booksIn 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison...

A deeply insightful take on how hate and insecurity can be intertwined, and an endearing love letter to the natural world, ‘On the Purpose of Hating’ is one of the most renowned essays from the brilliant mind of William Hazlitt. In ‘On the Purpose of Hating’, Hazlitt explores the complexities of hatred. He compellingly argues that hatred can have a self-destructive edge, and can do just as much harm to the person who harbours it as the subject of it. At its heart, hatred is merely a coping mechanism to manage our own shortcomings.

A collection of essays by B.V.Bharathi, published by Sawanna

Die grauen Haare waren ein Schock, dann kam der Schlafentzug und diese unkontrollierte Wut auf alles und jeden, aber Wechseljahre? – das ist doch ...

ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಕರ್ನಾಡ್ ಅವರ ಲೇಖನಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ.

ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಅವರು ಆಗಾಗ ಅಂದರೆ ವಿವಿಧ ಕಾಲಘಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿವಿಧ ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕ-ಜರ್ನಲ್ ಗಳಿಗೆ ಬರೆದ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು 'ಆಗೊಮ್ಮೆ ಈಗೊಮ್ಮೆ' ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. 'ನಾಟ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ' ದಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು 'Fearless ನಾದಿಯಾ' ಚಿತ್ರಗಳವರೆಗೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆಯ ವರೆಗೆ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯಮಯ ಬರಹಗಳು ಈ ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿವೆ.

«Somos seres entretejidos de relatos, bordados con hilos de voces, de historia, de filosofía y de ciencia, de leyes y leyendas. Por eso, la lectura seguirá cuidándonos si cuidamos de ella. No puede desaparecer lo que nos salva. Los libros nos recuerdan, serenos y siempre dispuestos a desplegarse ante nuestros ojos, que la salud de las palabras enraíza en las editoriales, en las librerías, en los círculos de lecturas compartidas, en las bibliotecas, en las escuelas. Es allí donde imaginamos el futuro que nos une».

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK O confesiune magistrală aflată la granița dintre intimitatea unui jurnal și densitatea unei autobiografii, Crezul lui Fuentes ne poartă pe urmele artei și istoriei până la cele mai importante evenimente care i-au conturat lumea și pasiunile. O carte multifațetată, în care autorul mexican construiește o hartă trasată din gânduri și amintiri, alternând teme precum iubirea și prietenia cu pasaje despre Buñuel, Faulkner și Wittgenstein.

Современная классика, проникновенное лирико-философское эссе, одна из 100 лучших научно-популярных книг всех времен по версии журнала Modern Library, незаменимая книга на полке любого филолога — и это все Горько-сладкий эрос Энн Карсон. Дебютная работа, которая почти мгновенно сделала из Энн Карсон одну из ведущих исследовательниц Античности, впервые выходит на русском языке!

সঞ্জীব চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের নির্বাচিত রম্য রচনা সমগ্র এখানে এমন কিছু রচনা পাবো...যা হালকা চালে লেখা...ছোট্ট ছোট্ট হাসির মোড়কে রচিত রচনা গুলি জীবনের সবকিছু কেই গভীর ভাবে ভাবতে শেখায়..

Das Lob der Torheit ist in Form einer Rede der personifizierten Torheit geschrieben, die ihre eigene Bedeutung und die Vorteile ihrer Existenz preist. Die Torheit spricht direkt zu den Lesern und argumentiert, dass sie in allen Bereichen des menschlichen Lebens präsent und notwendig ist. Sie lobt die Torheit in verschiedenen sozialen, politischen und religiösen Kontexten und kritisiert dabei indirekt die Missstände und Heuchelei der Gesellschaft.